Recently, I loved Kick Ass, Scott Pilgrim, Avengers/Iron Man/Thor (Captian America was arrrright). Didn't love Nolan's Batman (Heath Ledger's Joker notwithstanding). Most recent Spiderman >>> Toby's Spiderman. Um um I liked both of the modern Hulk movies in their own way (the ending of the 1st one was the absolute worst though).

I've recently been getting into The Watchmen. Watched it once, didn't care too much for it. Got a couple of the graphic novels and I'm starting to understand why people dig it. Much different from the average comic book story, and a lot of great underlying tones/themes that get the brain churning.

Love anything Frank Miller is involved with, Kickass, and V for Vendetta are a couple others that I can get into whenever they're on.

Just wish they'd make Y the Last Man into a movie, as long as they don't mess it up, haha.

I'm not a really big comic book movie kinda guy, but I have enjoyed this most recent Avengers stuff. The Hulk is the best character out of all of them. Really, really well done in this one, and by far my favorite rendition of him.

And totally agree this time around Spiderman is far, far better than the whiny little bitch boy that Toby McGuire played. By the end of any of those movies, you just wanted to strangle him and get it over with.

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Haven't followed the comic books since the 60's or so, so I can't say how any of the movies portrayed the originals in any but the Superman series. Chris Reeves did that one well.

300 (from the graphic novel) was pretty good, although a bit over the top in some scenes (I'm pretty sure nobody has ever domesticated a rhino, for one thing ). But it actually captured the spirit of the Spartan fighting men as well as I've seen, except maybe for the original live action 300 Spartans, which it's derived from.

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Forgot to mention Mystery Men as a ridiculous superhero movie. I mostly like that movie because I'm a huge mark for anything Tom Waits...and he's a mad scientist...what could be better?

Not to mention Hank Azaria, Artie Lange, Kel Mitchell, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Bay, Ceelo Green, Dane Cook, Paul Reubens and William H. Macy all managing to find roles in this film. There's probably more people, but these are the only ones I've found thus far. Maybe I'll watch it again and see if I recognize anyone as a stand-in or something.

Zeb, you lost all credibility with the part about not liking Nolan's Batman movies. At least, numbers one and two. Damn, dude. :-( That's like saying you support giving cancer to puppies and kittens. Why do you support cancer, Zeb? WHY???

RolandDeschain wrote:Zeb, you lost all credibility with the part about not liking Nolan's Batman movies. At least, numbers one and two. Damn, dude. :-( That's like saying you support giving cancer to puppies and kittens. Why do you support cancer, Zeb? WHY???

Bale's Batman voice ruined it for me. I just can't get passed it. That and the whole Two-Face thing was stupid. Bale's great as Bruce Wayne. Bane was stupid. Don't like Maggie Gyllenhaal. Don't like Katie Holmes. Anne Hathaway's best asset is her ass. Michael Caine's awesome, as is Morgan Freeman, obviously. Heath's Joker was obviously amazeballs. Don't like Liam Neeson. But all that aside, it's the Batman voice. It's like Jar Jar Binks. Unimaginably stupid. Also I do support giving cancer to puppies, or at least making them fight to the death. Not kittens though.

I agree about Bale's Batman voice. Completely unnecessary and hackish, and really the only thing about those movies that annoys me. Well, aside from him miraculously healing from a crippling back injury like that, that was really stupid.

As a fan of Community, I can't watch any of Nolan's Batman movies without hearing Danny Pudi's Batman voice and chuckling. I almost had to excuse myself from the theater during Dark Knight Rises.

and Scott Pilgrim was excellent. I had never read the graphic novel, but the movie hooked me with the 16-bit rendition of the Universaltheme followed by the music to the opening of Legend of Zelda playing as the camera scanned down on Scott's place, exactly like the game starts.

All of these great comic movies, and no mention of Constantine? Never read the comics though so can't compare them. I also thought Keanu Reeves was pretty good in this movie, no surfer fallback like he usually does in his other flicks.

Riley12 wrote:As a fan of Community, I can't watch any of Nolan's Batman movies without hearing Danny Pudi's Batman voice and chuckling. I almost had to excuse myself from the theater during Dark Knight Rises.

and Scott Pilgrim was excellent. I had never read the graphic novel, but the movie hooked me with the 16-bit rendition of the Universaltheme followed by the music to the opening of Legend of Zelda playing as the camera scanned down on Scott's place, exactly like the game starts.

I haven't seen it for a long time, so maybe I'd feel differently if I were to watch it again.... but I remember really enjoying "The Punisher." Definitely a bit corny and unrealistic- but that's what comics and comic book movies are meant for!

nategreat wrote:I haven't seen it for a long time, so maybe I'd feel differently if I were to watch it again.... but I remember really enjoying "The Punisher." Definitely a bit corny and unrealistic- but that's what comics and comic book movies are meant for!